Timely rains and great conditions have farmers racing to put seeds in the ground. USDA’s latest crop progress report shows 24% of the corn crop is now planted. That’s 2% ahead of the five-year average ...

Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, many farmers in southern Minnesota and Iowa began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in ...

Recent storms have dropped anywhere from a half inch to 4” of rain across many Midwest farmers’ fields. Ken Ferrie uses a ...

Year after year, the same 15 million acres across Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are planted with corn. Each August, the fibrous green leaves in those fields reach eye level. And each ...

U.S. farmers continue planting corn at a faster-than-normal pace, with soybean seeding also running ahead of average despite ...

Kent Thiesse looks at the weather conditions and crop conditions so far this year and reflects on how those might translate to final yield tallies across the country. Crop development is a bit behind ...

Here’s hoping for a successful corn and soybean planting season whenever your day begins. It is clear that the United States’ war efforts have driven up fertilizer prices, now that the planting season ...

As Midwest farmers prepare for another growing season, a familiar question is resurfacing across the Corn Belt: when is the ...